Predator 2 (1990)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Stephen Hopkins

Writers (WGA):

Jim Thomas (characters) &
John Thomas (characters) ...
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Release Date:

21 November 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Pull over, park, and pray.

Plot:

The monstrous alien is at it again. This in time in Los Angeles, he leaves a trail full of dead bodies, and the only man who can stop him this time is Lieutenant Mike Harrigan of the LAPD (Danny Glover).

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Predator | Skull | Monster | Helicopter

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Tue. July 28

4:45 PM

MAX

Cast

Kevin Peter Hall	...	The Predator
Danny Glover	...	Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
Gary Busey	...	Peter Keyes
Rubén Blades	...	Danny Archuleta (as Ruben Blades)
Maria Conchita Alonso	...	Leona Cantrell
Bill Paxton	...	Jerry Lambert
Robert Davi	...	Captain Phil Heinemann
Adam Baldwin	...	Garber
Kent McCord	...	Captain B. Pilgrim
Morton Downey Jr.	...	Tony Pope
Calvin Lockhart	...	King Willie
Steve Kahan	...	Sergeant
Henry Kingi	...	El Scorpio
Corey Rand	...	Ramon Vega
Elpidia Carrillo	...	Anna
Lilyan Chauvin	...	Irene Edwards
Michael Mark Edmondson	...	Gold Tooth
Teri Weigel	...	Colombian Girl
William R. Perry	...	Subway Gang Leader
Alex Chapman	...	Subway Gang
Gerard G. Williams	...	Subway Gang
John Cann	...	Subway Gang
Michael Papajohn	...	Subway Gang
Louis Eppolito	...	Patrolman (as Lou Eppolito)
Charles Haugk	...	Charlie (as Charlie Haugk)
Sylvia Kauders	...	Ruth
Charles David Richards	...	Commuter
Julian Reyes	...	Juan Beltran
Casey Sander	...	Federal Team
Pat Skipper	...	Federal Team
Carmine Zozzora	...	Federal Team
Valerie Karasek	...	Reporter
Chuck Boyd	...	Reporter
David Starwalt	...	Reporter
Abraham Alvarez	...	Reporter
Jim Ishida	...	Reporter
George Christy	...	Reporter
Lucinda Weist	...	Reporter
Richard Anthony Crenna	...	Paramedic
Billy 'Sly' Williams	...	Paramedic
Paulo Tocha	...	Detective
Jsu Garcia	...	Detective (as Nick Corri)
DeLynn Binzel	...	Hooker
Tom Finnegan	...	Officer
Patience Moore	...	Officer
Kashka	...	Jamaican
Jeffrey Reed	...	Jamaican
Carl Pistilli	...	Cop on Phone
Vonte Sweet	...	Sweet (as Vonté Sweet)
Ronald Moss	...	Jerome (as Ron Moss)
Brian Levinson	...	Anthony
Diana James	...	Leona's Friend
Beth Kanar	...	Woman Officer
Paul Abascal	...	Cop
Michael Wiseman	...	Cop
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vladimir McCrary	...	Jamaican Gang Member (uncredited)
Beverly Overstreet	...	Girl at Fire Hydrant (uncredited)
Thomas Rosales Jr.	...	El Scorpio Gang Member (uncredited)
Philip Weyland	...	Man in Crushed Car (uncredited)

Directed by
Stephen Hopkins

Writing credits (WGA)
Jim Thomas		(characters) &
John Thomas		(characters)
Jim Thomas		(written by) &
John Thomas		(written by)

Produced by
Terry Carr	....	co-producer
John Davis	....	producer
Lawrence Gordon	....	producer
Tom Joyner	....	co-producer
Lloyd Levin	....	executive producer
Michael Levy	....	executive producer
Joel Silver	....	producer
Suzanne Todd	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Alan Silvestri

Cinematography by
Peter Levy		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Mark Goldblatt
Bert Lovitt

Casting by
Jackie Burch
Ferne Cassel

Production Design by
Lawrence G. Paull

Art Direction by
Geoff Hubbard

Set Decoration by
Rick Simpson

Costume Design by
Marilyn Vance		(as Marilyn Vance-Straker)

Makeup Department
Paul Abascal	....	hair styles supervisor
Scott H. Eddo	....	makeup designer
Michael Mills	....	makeup supervisor
Don Sheldon	....	hair stylist
Kevin Westmore	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Tom Joyner	....	unit production manager
Edward D. Markley	....	additional production manager (as Ed Markley)
Jeanne Van Cott	....	executive production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
J. Tom Archuleta	....	second assistant director
Christopher T. Gerrity	....	second second assistant director (as Chris Gerrity)
Josh McLaglen	....	first assistant director
Robert Grasmere	....	second unit director: Predator and news sequences (uncredited)

Art Department
Clete Cetrone	....	propmaker foreman
Louis M. Mann	....	set designer (as Louis Mann)
Alan Manzer	....	set designer (as Al Manzer)
Richard F. Mays	....	set designer (as Richard Mays)
Luigi Mugavero	....	set dresser
Clarence Lynn Price	....	construction coordinator (as Lynn Price)
Peter A. Ramsey	....	storyboard artist (as Peter Ramsey)
Bruce Richter	....	carpenter
Gerald Scaife	....	construction auditor
Jordu Schell	....	sculptor
Sally Thornton	....	set designer
Tommy 'Tom' Tomlinson	....	property master (as Tommy Tomlinson)
Paul Vincent Fusco	....	props (uncredited)

Sound Department
Alex Algarin	....	sound re-recording mixer
David W. Alstadter	....	foley mixer
Gregg Barbanell	....	foley artist
David Bartlett	....	sound effects editor
Ron Bartlett	....	sound editor
Ron Bartlett	....	sound effects editor
Dean Beville	....	sound effects editor
William C. Carruth	....	adr supervisor (as William Carruth)
Chris David	....	sound re-recording mixer
John Dunn	....	sound effects editor
Donald Flick	....	sound effects editor
Judee Flick	....	sound effects editor
Stephen Hunter Flick	....	sound effects
Gary S. Gerlich	....	supervising dialogue editor
Bill Hargrave	....	boom operator
Ron S. Herbes	....	assistant adr editor
Ron S. Herbes	....	assistant dialogue editor
Elliott Koretz	....	sound editor
David Miranda	....	adr mixer (as David N.C. Miranda)
Richard Overton	....	sound re-recording mixer
John Pospisil	....	special sound effects
Richard Raguse	....	sound mixer
Robert Renga	....	sound recordist
Sergio Reyes	....	sound re-recording mixer
Joan Rowe	....	foley artist
B. Tennyson Sebastian III	....	sound re-recording mixer
George Simpson	....	sound effects editor
Marvin Walowitz	....	sound effects editor
David Lewis Yewdall	....	sound effects editor (as David Yewdall)
Dennis Leonard	....	post-production sound engineer (uncredited)
Harry E. Snodgrass	....	creature sound designer (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Larz Anderson	....	special effects foreman
Albert Delgado	....	special effects foreman
Roy Goode	....	pyrotechnician
Robert S. Henderson	....	special effects (as Robert Henderson)
Guy Himber	....	creature shop mechanical department
Kevin Hudson	....	special effects crew
Adam Jones	....	art department: Stan Winston Studio
Adam Jones	....	creature effects crew
Gary L. Karas	....	special effects (as Gary Karas)
Eileen Kastner-Delago	....	art department: Stan Winston Studio
Eileen Kastner-Delago	....	special effects crew
Richard J. Landon	....	mechanical department coordinator: Stan Winston Studio (as Richard Landon)
Shane Mahan	....	art department coordinator: Stan Winston Studio
Curt Massof	....	art department: Stan Winston Studio
Joe Montenegro	....	special effects
Robert L. Olmstead	....	special effects (as Robert Olmstead)
Ken Pepiot	....	special effects supervisor
Mark Rappaport	....	animatronic creature effects
Gintar Repecka	....	special effects
Wayne Rose	....	special effects
Robert E. Watson	....	art department: Stan Winston Studio
Stan Winston	....	special effects
Richard Zarro	....	special effects
Sandy Collora	....	concept artist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Nancy Bernstein	....	visual effects producer: R/Greenberg Associates Inc.
Paul Gentry	....	MoCo operator
Paul Gentry	....	director of photography: miniatures
Rocco Gioffre	....	matte artist
Robert Grasmere	....	vifx visual effects supervisor
Joel Hynek	....	visual effects supervisor
J.W. Kompare	....	visual effects coordinator
Gregory L. McMurry	....	visual effects
Christopher Nibley	....	visual effects
John Nicolard	....	visual effects
Jacques Stroweis	....	computer graphics
Pam Vick	....	rotoscope artist
Larry Weiss	....	computer graphics animator
Mark Whitlock	....	matte artist
Gus Duron	....	visual effects editor: Video Image (uncredited)
Joseph Thomas	....	motion control crew (uncredited)

Stunts
Mello Alexandria	....	stunts
David Balcorta	....	stunts
Perry Barndt	....	stunts
Kenny Bates	....	stunts (as Kenneth W. Bates)
Nathaniel Bellamy Jr.	....	stunts
Janet Brady	....	stunts
Robert C. Brown	....	stunts
Tony Brubaker	....	stunts
David Burton	....	stunts
William H. Burton	....	stunts
Jeff Cadiente	....	stunts
John Cann	....	stunt performer
Mike Ceballos	....	stunts
Phil Chong	....	stunts
Gilbert B. Combs	....	stunts (as Gil Combs)
Bob K. Cummings	....	stunts
Gregg Dandridge	....	stunts
Gary Davis	....	stunt coordinator
Gary Davis	....	stunts
Mike De Luna	....	stunts
Lionel Douglass	....	stunts
Rick Edwards	....	stunts
Dane Farwell	....	stunts
Lila Finn	....	stunts
Bruce Gattenbein	....	stunts (as Bruce Gantenbien)
Cody Glenn	....	stunts
Ramiro González	....	stunts
Marian Green	....	stunts (as Marian E. Green)
Randy Hall	....	stunts
James M. Halty	....	stunts
Gene Hartline	....	stunts
Joy Hooper	....	stunts
Rick Kahana	....	stunts
Dana Mackey	....	stunts
Eric Mansker	....	stunts
Rusty McClennon	....	stunts
Cliff McLaughlin	....	stunts
Gene McLaughlin	....	stunts
Claude Jay McLin	....	stunts
Alan Oliney	....	stunts
Jimmy Ortega	....	stunts (as Jim Ortega)
Manny Perry	....	stunts
Chuck Picerni Jr.	....	stunts
Steve Picerni	....	stunts
James Pruitt	....	stunts
Danny Rogers	....	stunts
J.P. Romano	....	stunts
Pat Romano	....	stunts (as Patrick Romano)
Ronnie Rondell Jr.	....	stunts (as Ronald R. Rondell)
Thomas Rosales Jr.	....	stunts (as Tom Rosales Jr.)
Dennis Scott	....	stunts (as Dennis R. Scott)
Brian Simpson	....	stunts
Eddie Smith	....	stunts
R. David Smith	....	stunts
Ron Stein	....	stunts
Tierre Turner	....	stunts
William Upton	....	stunts
Philip Weyland	....	stunts
Eddie L. Watkins	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Jenna Abrahamson-Minardi	....	lighting technician
Stuart Abramson	....	key grip (as Stu Abramson)
Robert Reed Altman	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera (as Robert Altman)
Jack Anderson	....	additional camera operator
Robert L. Blatman	....	assistant camera
Foster K. Denker	....	gaffer (as Foster Denker)
Laurence Flynn	....	electrical best boy
Richard Foreman Jr.	....	still photographer
Curtis Foster	....	electrical best boy
Kevin C. Goff	....	second assistant camera (as Kevin Goff)
Frederick Iannone	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Lawrence Karman	....	first assistant camera
Richard J. Lee Jr.	....	rigging set lighting technician
J. Michael Muro	....	Steadicam operator (as Jimmy Muro)
Butch Pierson	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera
Krishna Rao	....	camera operator
Robert Rust	....	dolly grip
Robert Sikora	....	rigging gaffer
Mark Simon	....	assistant camera
Vincent E. Toto	....	assistant camera: Video Image Crew

Casting Department
Felicia Fasano	....	casting assistant
Franklyn Warren	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Elinor Bardach	....	key costumer
James P. Cullen	....	costumer
Daniel J. Lester	....	costume supervisor (as Dan Lester)

Editorial Department
Gary Burritt	....	negative cutter
Gillian L. Hutshing	....	assistant editor
Laura Krumholz	....	first assistant editor
Keith Parrish	....	color timer
Florent Retz	....	first assistant editor
Lorraine Salk	....	first assistant editor
Mike Stanwick	....	color timer (as Michael Stanwick)

Music Department
James B. Campbell	....	orchestrator
Kenneth Karman	....	music editor
Hal Rayle	....	predator vocalization
Dennis S. Sands	....	music scoring mixer (as Dennis Sands)
Norman B. Schwartz	....	special vocal effects
Steven L. Smith	....	music preparation
Harry E. Snodgrass	....	creature vocal design
Jacqueline Tager	....	assistant music editor

Transportation Department
Michael Avallon	....	driver
Howard Bachrach	....	transportation captain
Steve Duncan	....	transportation coordinator
Dan Romero	....	transportation co-captain

Other crew
Caroline Allen	....	crew: Video Image
Bill Basso	....	puppeteer
Lisa Blok-Linson	....	location manager
Craig Caton	....	puppeteer
Jack Crain	....	knife designer and manufacturer (as Jack W. Crain)
Fernando Cubillas	....	production assistant
John 'D.J.' Des Jardin	....	crew: Video Image
James Fred Donelson	....	crew: Video Image
Kevin Duncan	....	production assistant
Antoine Durr	....	crew: Video Image
Howard Fannon	....	arms specialist
Sonny P. Filippini	....	script supervisor (as Sonny Filippini)
David G. George	....	assistant to executive producer
Martin Glover	....	set production assistant
Robert Grasmere	....	coordinator: Video Image (as Robert Grasmere Jr.)
Michael Grasso	....	firearms advisor
Rhonda C. Gunner	....	crew: Video Image
Richard E. Hollander	....	crew: Video Image
Shelley Kirkwood	....	unit publicist
Richard J. Landon	....	puppeteer (as Richard Joseph Landon)
Shane Mahan	....	puppeteer (as Shane P. Mahan)
Karen Mason	....	puppeteer (as Karen I. Mason)
Bill McCamey	....	on-set nurse
Mark E. McCreary	....	puppeteer
George McDowell Agnew	....	location manager (as George McDowell)
Kathy McHugh	....	assistant production coordinator
Bart Mixon	....	special weapons: O.W.L.F. team
Christopher Mollo	....	assistant: Larry Gordon
Gilbert O. Parra	....	police advisor (as Art Fransen)
Karen Penhale	....	production coordinator
Scott D. Peterson	....	crew: Video Image (as Scott Peterson)
Roger Porteous	....	crew: Video Image
Larry Potoker	....	crew: Video Image
Alan D. Purwin	....	pilot (as Alan Purwin)
Giedra Rackauskas	....	production executive (as Gig Rackauskas)
John Rosengrant	....	puppeteer
Ian Stevenson	....	puppeteer
Charles A. Tamburro	....	pilot (as Chuck Tamburro)
Kellett Tighe	....	assistant: Lawrence Gordon
John C. Wash	....	crew: Video Image
Larry Weiss	....	crew: Video Image
Stan Winston	....	creature creation
Billy Bowles	....	adr voice (uncredited)
William Stout	....	creature designer (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1990) (USA) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (1990) (UK) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox of Germany (1991) (Germany) (theatrical)
• CBS/Fox (1991) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• CBS/Fox (1996) (USA) (VHS)
• Encore Entertainment (1996) (UK) (video) (laserdisc)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Germany (2001) (Germany) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Netherlands (1991) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Finnkino (1991) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Lucernafilm - Beta (1992) (Czechoslovakia) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Italia
• 20th Century Fox (2007) (UK) (DVD) (The Definitive Edition)
• FS Film Oy (2001) (Finland) (DVD)
• Fox Network (1993) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Mainostelevisio (MTV3) (1996) (2001) (2002) (Finland) (TV)
• Oy Europa Vision AB (1991) (Finland) (VHS)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (1998) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2001) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-Ray Disc)

Special Effects

• Howard Anderson Company, The (as Howard A. Anderson Company)
• Pacific Titles & Optical
• R/Greenberg Associates
• Stan Winston Studio
• Video Image (video & graphic displays, Predator P.O.V.)
• Visual Concept Engineering (VCE)

Other Companies

• Central Casting  extras casting
• Inter Video  technical set dressing
• Meridian Studios  foley services
• R/Greenberg Associates  titles
• Skywalker Sound  scoring services
• Tony's Food Service  catering
• Varèse Sarabande  score album released by

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and language, and for sensuality and drug content.

Runtime:

108 min | Germany:93 min (TV version) (FSK 18 version) (heavily cut) | 103 min (vcd)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints)

Certification:

Germany:18 (video premiere) (cut) | Germany:18 (re-release) (JK/SPIO) (uncut) | Iceland:16 | USA:NC-17 (original rating) | Finland:K-15 (uncut) (2001) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1991) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1990) | Malaysia:18PL | USA:TV-14 (cut TV version) | Brazil:16 | UK:15 (re-rating) (2007) | India:A | South Korea:15 (cable rating) | Australia:MA (DVD rating) (2005) | Australia:M (cut) | Australia:R (original rating) (uncut version) | Canada:R (DVD rating) | Chile:14 | France:-12 | Ireland:18 | New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Norway:18 (video premiere) (1991) | Norway:(Banned) (1990-2003) (cinema release) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Bill Paxton previously starred in Aliens (1986).

Goofs:

Continuity: During the subway scene, Lambert draws his weapon to defuse the situation between the gang members and the other passengers. However, as the scene cuts back and forth between Lambert and the other individuals on the subway, the laser sight on his weapon switches between on and off.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Reporter: As drought-ridden Los Angeles swelters in agonizing heat, drug lords wage bloody warfare in the streets. Yet another open conflict... Oh, fuck this, get me out of here!

Movie Connections:

Spin off Predator 2 (1991) (VG)

Soundtrack:

LETTIN' OFF STEAM

Hard act to follow

Los Angles 1997. Gang warfare rages between rival drug gangs with the police caught in the middle. During one shoot out the police led by Mike Harrington (Glover) trap 6 men in a building. Before they can act the 6 are violently killed and stung up by an unseen attacker. As more armed gangs are attacked and killed in similarly unexplained ways the police realise that a new element is attempting to muscle in on the existing gangs. Glover and his team begin to hunt the new gang until they are joined by a FBI unit who seem to know more about the gang than they let on.

This follows on from the first movie well - not a forced sequel picking up from the last, but a different film that ties it's action in with previous events. None of the original stars return but the cast is full of name stars - Gary Busey, Danny Glover, Bill Paxton, Ruben Blades, Robert Davi. The plot is basically the same as the first - an unseen attacker attacks armed forces in the jungle - except here it's in the urban jungle, and it's actually pretty good.

The plot has the core of the predator doing battle, but now has another string of the FBI/Gary Busey conspiracy which makes the film much more interesting. However all this is window dressing to the action scenes. Unfortunately this doesn't have as much slow tension as the first film, but rather has long raging gun battle throughout - this does tend to bring it down to the level of a standard action movie but it does have some standout scenes that lift the film. The strobing fight on the subway is the most effective but the battles between police, gangs and predator are also very well handled. Overall the action is great but could have benefited from more slow, tension building. That said this sequel doesn't make the mistake that other "creature-feature" sequels have made - this keep the Predator hidden even though we already know what it looks like. For the most part the Predator moves cloaked and we only really seek the consequences of it's actions rather than the whole beast revealed. This keeps a certain mystery and helps build a certain amount of tension.

The final battle between hero and Predator is not quite as good as Schwarzenegger's confrontation with the alien, but is still a good finish to the film. It's easy to believe that Arnie could use the jungle and stealth to defeat the alien - but Danny Glover (Mr "3 days from retirement"?) taking on the Predator in what is essentially an extended fist fight? Sorry - it's fun to watch but a little hard to believe.

The performances are good, Glover gets to be a Riggs type rather than a Murtagh/retirement case. Paxton plays the energetic side kick and continues his killer-alien experience that he started in Aliens. Even Busey, now almost completely bereft of his star status and wallowing in video thrillers, is good here as a shadowy FBI agent. Sad to think that he got so good at this role that he got regularly typecast and is now doing things like Lethal Tender, Universal Soldier 2 and many others I've tried hard to forget. The rest of the cast do well as fodder for the predator but it's really all about the action.

The film contains some nice touches that develop the Predator in the same way that Aliens took a step along from Alien. The feeling that the Predator has hunted across all worlds (including the aforementioned alien) is cool as well as some other things that you get from the ending that I wouldn't spoil. But the attempt to give the Predator a sense of mercy is a bit forced. In the first it wouldn't kill an unarmed person, i.e. it always wanted sport. Here this extends to it sparing the life of an armed police woman because she is pregnant, that just seemed a little out of character to me, but I understand why they did it.

Overall this is a solid action movie with plenty of good scenes. When compared to the first movie it almost holds it's own but it lacks the sense of fear and being hunted that the first brought - this has tension but the first film have tension by the bucket.